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Calligraphy
Create a beautiful, custom product with elegant calligraphy, designed in-store
Calligraphy is the art of using elegant penmanship in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner.
Calligraphy flourishes today in the forms of wedding and event invitations, font design and typography, original logo design, religious art, announcements, certificates and other memorial documents.
Set up an appointment with a custom printing specialist and let an expert from the team at Greetings & Readings guide you through the creation process, using computer-based printing to ensure clean, consistent lettering.
The specialists at Greetings & Readings have an eye for color-matching and will, for example, skillfully match your personalized envelopes to the pre-printed return addresses you may already have.
Fran Baum is the resident calligraphy expert on the custom printing team at Greetings & Readings. Find out more about her and the rest of the custom printing team.
A brief history
The word calligraphy literally means beautiful writing. Before the invention of the printing press some 500 years ago, it was the way books were made. Each copy was handwritten out by a scribe working in a scriptorium. The hand writing was done with quill and ink onto materials like vellum or parchment. The lettering style applied was one of the period bookhands like rustic, carolingian, blackletter, etc.
Calligraphy is the art of using elegant penmanship in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner.